After a lovely day off in Berlin, we hit the road to Mannheim. It’s a 7-hour drive but myuch closer to France. Anyway, let’s face it, Berlin is quite far.

Today’s programme is simple enough, a lot of driving and a stop in Treppendorf, the city where Thomann’s headquarters are located. We get a chance to visit the shops, quite impressive and nice.

An hour later, we’re back on the road to Mannheim and finally reach our destination with a beautiful sunset. Enough time for us to find the venue and doubts start creeping in. We’re on time, not the guys of the venue, the venue itself is dirty, and that is an understatement… It looks closer to a tip, let’s be honest… but let’s wait and see.

The arrival of Jonas, « owner » of the Mohawk Club, confirms all our doubts… After a long phone call, he tells us in his very « lethargic » voice that the show won’t happen because of unpaid bills that led the local authorities to change locks on the doors and cut off electrical power in the venue…

Then comes the very polite and understanding brainstorming of a band who needs to play and cover expenses of a day on the road and 12 days or so on tour… But these are very vain efforts because of Jonas’ total lack of will and motivation, who sadly chose to give us a minimum amount of money to cover his massive mess over getting his shit together to finally make the show happen…

Hopefully, accomodation is not cancelled, and the youth hostel room soon turns into our headquarter. Thinking about the situation, there’s plenty of good to be observed: our very spontaneous and collective reaction, how easily and quickly we got re-organised after such an uncool and shitty news and with such incompetent persons. In the end, we’re definitely an efficient team and that means a lot, even more in difficult times.

After a French diner cooked by ourselves, we get to bed, we laugh and long for tomorrow. We’ll be playing the last show of this wonderful tour in Mouscron, Belgium, and yes, we can’t wait to rock and have fun with cool people!